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inaptitude

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in·ap·ti·tude  (n-pt-td, -tyd)
n.
1. Lack of talent or ability.
2. The quality or state of being inappropriate.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.inaptitude - a lack of aptitude
inability - lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something
talentlessness - a lack of talent
incapability, incapableness - lack of potential for development
aptitude - inherent ability
Translations
inaptitude [ɪnˈæptɪtjuːd] N (= unsuitability) → falta f de idoneidad; (= inappositeness) → falta f de pertinencia
inaptitude [ɪnˈæptɪtjuːd] n → inaptitude f
inaptitude
n (of person) → Unfähigkeit f; (for work etc) → Untauglichkeit f; (of remark) → Ungeschicktheit f
inaptitude [ɪnˈæptɪˌtjuːd] inaptness [ɪnˈæptnɪs] n (of remark) → improprietà
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We owed so much to Herbert's ever cheerful industry and readiness, that I often wondered how I had conceived that old idea of his inaptitude, until I was one day enlightened by the reflection, that perhaps the inaptitude had never been in him at all, but had been in me.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
The first might proceed from sinister designs in the leading members of a few of the State legislatures; the last would suppose a fixed and rooted disaffection in the great body of the people, which will either never exist at all, or will, in all probability, proceed from an experience of the inaptitude of the general government to the advancement of their happiness in which event no good citizen could desire its continuance.
Federalist Papers Authored by Alexander Hamilton by Hamilton, Alexander View in context
nor in their ambitions, but in something more profound, in her own inaptitude, and above all, in her mother's temperament.
Night and Day by Woolf, Virginia View in context
 
 
 
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